Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
24849
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
26/02/2001  
Date of Amendment
26/02/2001  
Name of Property
Taff Vale Railway Viaduct over River Taff  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff  
Community
Pontypridd  
Town
Pontypridd  
Locality
Coed-pen-maen  
Easting
307805  
Northing
191072  
Street Side
 
Location
Spanning the River Taff approximately 0.75km NNE of Pontypridd Bridge and immediately N of the White Bridge.  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
Dated 1885 and part of an extension of the Taff Vale Railway to serve Albion Colliery at Cilfynydd.  

Exterior
A 3-bay girder viaduct on tapering rock-faced sandstone piers. The piers have rounded cutwaters at the base and projecting bands below the top. On top of the piers are cast iron parapet piers with saddleback copings. These piers bear in relief the date and the legend 'TVR' on alternate faces. The steel girder deck has a latticework steel parapet. These parapets terminate in rectangular stone piers with conglomerate coping stones. The abutments are of rock-faced stone with a band of red conglomerate below the top. They comprise splayed walls retaining the embankment on both sides, of which the W abutment is more substantial as the ground is steeper. The deck carries an iron pipe but the rails have been taken up.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved steel girder viaduct, a type characteristic of the late C19 but now extremely rare in S Wales.  

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